{"id":390278,"date":"2022-05-31T14:51:56","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T14:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=390278"},"modified":"2022-05-31T14:51:56","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T14:51:56","slug":"people-calling-me-doesnt-affect-me-dominick-cruz-responds-to-marlon-chito-veras-recent-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/people-calling-me-doesnt-affect-me-dominick-cruz-responds-to-marlon-chito-veras-recent-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;People Calling Me Doesn\u2019t Affect Me&#8217;- Dominick Cruz Responds to Marlon &#8216;Chito&#8217; Vera&#8217;s Recent Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz spoke to Ariel Helwani on \u2018The MMA Hour\u2019 and commented on recent comments made by divisional contender Marlon Vera. \u2018Chito\u2019 Vera admonished Cruz for refusing to fight him in the past, when the Ecuadorian fighter was ranked below Dominick Cruz.<\/p>\n<p>However, the tables have since turned and Marlon Vera has shot up in the rankings over names like Cruz after he defeated Rob Font. Cruz found Marlon Vera\u2019s behavior somewhat hypocritical since he was now doing the same thing he had accused Cruz of doing in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/hes-obviously-jealous-of-me-tj-dillashaw-hits-back-at-salty-cut-dominick-cruz-for-his-recent-comments\/\">\u201cHe\u2019s Obviously Jealous of Me\u201d- TJ Dillashaw Hits Back at \u2018Salty Cu*t\u2019 Dominick Cruz for His Recent Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, Cruz would also go on to say that he was simply focused on the dates of the fight and that potential opponents really don\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019m sorry that people calling me doesn\u2019t affect me. Like I said, I focus on dates. I don\u2019t say no to fights &#8211; I don\u2019t know where he\u2019s getting this idea that I do. I say no to dates. Opponents don\u2019t really matter, because you\u2019re going to have to fight everybody to get to [a] championship anyways.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BGAznSpMHzo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhat\u2019s funny is I did hear him saying he wants somebody in the top-five or top-four, so why would he ask for those [opponents with those rankings] if it didn\u2019t matter. If moving up the ladder didn\u2019t matter, then why would you ask for somebody above you, not underneath you in the division, like he\u2019s done.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-389769 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/05\/vera.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"824\" height=\"670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/05\/vera.jpg 824w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/05\/vera-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/05\/vera-768x624.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 824px) 100vw, 824px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWell, it\u2019s the same reason I have, the same reason the rest of us all have: We\u2019re all fighting in the same bracket to be champion. So yeah, I\u2019m not opposed to it. He\u2019s ranked above me now, too. So sure. Let\u2019s get the date.\u201d [h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2022\/5\/30\/23144886\/dominick-cruz-responds-to-marlon-vera-fight-ducking-claims-i-dont-know-where-hes-getting-this-idea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mmafighting.com<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Marlon Vera is ranked number 5 while Dominick Cruz sits at the 8<sup>th<\/sup> position in the UFC\u2019s official rankings. Given their proximity, it\u2019s very possible that the UFC could look to make this booking, especially since both men have spoken about the other in the media.<\/p>\n<p>However, Marlon \u2018Chito\u2019 Vera has his sights set on a world championship and it\u2019s unlikely he\u2019ll be willing to take a step back in the rankings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz spoke to Ariel Helwani on \u2018The MMA Hour\u2019 and commented on recent comments made by divisional contender Marlon Vera. \u2018Chito\u2019 Vera admonished Cruz for refusing to fight him in the past, when the Ecuadorian fighter was ranked below Dominick Cruz. However, the tables have since turned and Marlon Vera [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":389848,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}